This title has been prepared for students undertaking the units Australian Legal Systems in Context, Legal Research Methods and Legal Writing and Drafting at the Victoria Law School, College of Law and Justice, Victoria University.

The book comprises chapters from the following LexisNexis publications:

• Field, Duffy & Huggins, Lawyering and Positive Professional Identities, 2nd ed, LexisNexis, 2020
• Corbett-Jarvis & Grigg, Effective Legal Writing: A Practical Guide, 3rd ed, LexisNexis, Bott & Talbot-Stokes, Nemes & Coss' Effective Legal Research, 8th ed, LexisNexis, 2021
• Creyke, Hamer, O'Mara Smith & Taylor, Laying Down the Law, 11th ed, LexisNexis, 2021
• Hall & Macken, LexisNexis Guides: Legislation and Statutory Interpretation, 5th ed, LexisNexis, 2021
• Zimmermann, Western Legal Theory: History, Concepts and Perspectives, LexisNexis Butterworths, 2013
• Easteal (ed), Women and the Law in Australia, LexisNexis Butterworths, 2010
• Butt, Legal Usage: A Modern Style Guide, LexisNexis, 2018
• McDonald & McGill, Legal Drafting: A How to Guide, LexisNexis Butterworths, 2014
• Radavoi & Norris, Australian Law in Context: Social, Political and Global Perspectives, LexisNexis, 2020
• Australian Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents, LexisNexis, looseleaf and online
• Court Forms, Precedents & Pleadings Victoria, LexisNexis, looseleaf and online

It also includes additional original material that has been prepared specifically for this publication.

Edited by Kathleen Raponi, Joelle de Saint & Catherine O'Sullivan

Related Titles

• Bott & Talbot-Stokes, Nemes & Coss' Effective Legal Research, 8th ed, 2021
• Finkelstein & Hamer, LexisNexis Concise Australian Legal Dictionary, 6th ed, 2021
• Hall & Macken, Statutory Interpretation: Principles and Context, 2021
• Jones, Chisholm & Nettheim's Understanding Law: An Introduction to the Australian Legal System, 9th ed, 2021